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Thomas Ruttig

Thomas Ruttig: “L’única solució per posar fi a la guerra és parlar amb els talibans”

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ara.cat, 28 January 2018 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig was interviewed  by the Barcelona-based newspaper after the 27 January Taleban car bomb attack. Despite the fact that such attacks will turn more afghans against talks with the Taleban, he sees an end in the conflict only in a political solution via talks with the Taleban.

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Losing Sight: A 4-Year-Old Girl Was the Sole Survivor of a U.S. Drone Strike in Afghanistan. Then She Disappeared.

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The Intercept, 27 January 2018 Amazing story by May Jeong, from Assadabad in Kunar province, that has happened in September 2013. But also: Apparently the story had been written elsewhere before – see above: “The story of the faceless girl” from 2014.

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Fast 100 Tote und 160 Verletzte bei Taliban-Anschlag

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dpa/Die Welt, 27 January 2018 The leading German news agency quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on possible motifs behind the day’s Taleban car bomb attack that killed almost 100 people. He says that, as one aspect of it, the Taleban possibly wanted to deepen Afghans’ disappointment with a government that they believe is not capable of […]

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Afghanistan under attack

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Frontier Post, 26 January 2018 A premier? AAN quoted in the leading Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (formerly NWFP) daily, on anti-IS militias in eastern Afghanistan: Locals also began taking up arms against ISKP and joined “uprising” groups led by local strongmen, while others coordinated with Afghan Security Forces or even the Taliban in an effort to fight off […]

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Indonesia Proposes 3-Nation Panel of Islamic Scholars to Promote Afghan Peace

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Voice of America, 26 January 2018 With a short quote from AAN’s latest analysis of 2017’s lack of serious peace efforts, on Taleban language.

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Armed Anti-Militant Bands Hound Civilians In Restive Afghan Province

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Gandhara, 25 January 2018 A new example of ‘militias gone wrong‘ in the northeast of Afghanistan, here Kunduz, by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty blog contributors Ajmal Aryan and Abubakar Siddique.: Farmers across Kunduz say illegal militias prey on their livelihoods and extort money or take away a portion of their produce in the name of Islamic taxes […]

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Human rights abused as children are imprisoned along with a parent

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The Saratoga Falcon, 25 January 2018 Sari Kouvo’s 2011 AAN research is quoted in this article about children rights in Afghanistan: Even though many nations have an age limit to incarcerating innocent minors along with their parents, these laws are not always strictly abided by. Afghanistan places this restriction at age 7, but Meena’s position, […]

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In Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, violence is committed by all sides

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The New Arab, 25 January 2018 The website article quotes from “former Afghanistan Analysts Network researcher, Borhan Osman, who now works with Crisis Group International” who … gives one of the most detailed accounts of how ISKP came to be: “In late January 2015, the Islamic State announced its expansion into Khorasan province. The elements of what […]

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Words, No Deeds: 2017, another lost year for peace (talks) in Afghanistan

Obaid Ali • Thomas Ruttig •

Despite a new offer by the Afghan government through the High Peace Council, there was not much movement toward government-Taleban talks to end the war peacefully in the past year. Both sides continue to engage in general pro-peace rhetoric, while allowing little to happen in practice. Currently, they are bogged down in a dispute over […]

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Afghanarar reiser heim til ny flukt

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Vårt Land, 24 January 2018 The Norwegian website quotes AAN in an article about Norway’s migration policy: Medan drygt 250.000 afghanarar søkte vern i Europa i 2015-2016, stig no talet på afghanarar som vender tilbake, både frivillig og med tvang, fortel tenketanken Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN). Ein AAN-analyse viser at: • Det er særleg unge, […]

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Warnings Taliban is gaining strength following Kabul hotel attack

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ABC Australia, 23 January 2018 Listen to the audio of a live interview of AAN’s Thomas Ruttig with Australian radio about the aftermath of the 20-21 January Kabul hotel attack.

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